Hi!
My mythbox's clock is drifting and it seems that ntp is not updating the clock. There are no messages whatsoever in /var/log/messages for ntp.
Service reports ntpd to be running. If I restart the service it updates
immediately and just fine and then the correct info is logged in
/var/log/messages. Just doesn't seem to be doing it automatically.
Thanks! Eric
Many good posts here about what the problem might be, but in my experience, running ntp is often overkill for many simple hosts since it requires time to sync, measure the drift, etc...
The simplest solution by far is to drop a script in your /etc/cron.hourly folder, assuming a FC system, which contains something like:
#/bin/sh /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u addressofntpserver.com
This will sync your time every hour, requires absolutely no daemon to be running and works very well. If you want it to sync more often, say every 20 minutes, add an entry to your crontab.
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